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15 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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23 <div class="title">I want the courts to be involved before the police can hijack a news site DNS domain (#domstolkontroll)</div>
24 <div class="date">19th May 2016</div>
25 <div class="body"><p>I just donated to the
26 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml">NUUG defence
27 "fond"</a> to fund the effort in Norway to get the seizure of the news
28 site popcorn-time.no tested in court. I hope everyone that agree with
29 me will do the same.</p>
30
31 <p>Would you be worried if you knew the police in your country could
32 hijack DNS domains of news sites covering free software system without
33 talking to a judge first? I am. What if the free software system
34 combined search engine lookups, bittorrent downloads and video playout
35 and was called Popcorn Time? Would that affect your view? It still
36 make me worried.</p>
37
38 <p>In March 2016, the Norwegian police seized (as in forced NORID to
39 change the IP address pointed to by it to one controlled by the
40 police) the DNS domain popcorn-time.no, without any supervision from
41 the courts. I did not know about the web site back then, and assumed
42 the courts had been involved, and was very surprised when I discovered
43 that the police had hijacked the DNS domain without asking a judge for
44 permission first. I was even more surprised when I had a look at
45 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://popcorn-time.no">the web
46 site content on the Internet Archive</A>, and only found news coverage
47 about Popcorn Time, not any material published without the right
48 holders permissions.</p>
49
50 <p>The seizure was widely covered in the Norwegian press (see for
51 example <a href="http://www.hegnar.no/Nyheter/Naeringsliv/2016/03/Popcorn-time.no-beslaglagt-av-OEkokrim">Hegnar Online</a> and
52 <a href="http://itavisen.no/2016/03/08/okokrim-har-beslaglagt-popcorn-time-no/">ITavisen<a/>
53 and
54 <a href="http://www.nrk.no/kultur/okokrim-gar-til-aksjon-mot-popcorn-time-1.12842452">NRK</a>),
55 at first due to the press release sent out by Økokrim, but then based
56 on
57 <a href="http://blogg.torvund.net/2016/03/09/okokrims-beslag-i-domenet-popcorn-time-no/">protests
58 from the law professor Olav Torvund</a> and
59 <a href="http://www.klassekampen.no/article/20160311/ARTICLE/160319995">lawyer
60 Jon Wessel-Aas</a>. It even got some
61 <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/norwegian-authorities-sued-over-popcorn-time-domain-seizure-160418/">coverage
62 on TorrentFreak</a>.</p>
63
64 <p>I
65 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_contests_Norwegian_police_DNS_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no.html">
66 wrote about the case a month ago</a>, when the
67 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">Norwegian Unix User Group</a> (NUUG),
68 where I am an active member, decided to ask the courts to test this seizure.
69 The request was denied, but NUUG and its co-requestor EFN have not
70 given up, and now they are rallying for support to get the seizure
71 legally challenged. They accept both bank and Bitcoin transfer for
72 those that want to support the request.</p>
73
74 <p>If you as me believe news sites about free software should not be
75 censored, even if the free software have both legal and illegal
76 applications, and that DNS hijacking should be tested by the courts, I
77 suggest you <a href="http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml">show
78 your support by donating to NUUG</a>.</a>
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